Djibouti

=**Djibouti**=

The population in Djibouti is 774,389 of people. Djibouti is located in Easter Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia. Its area is 2.960 square miles. Djibouti is slightly smaller than Massachusetts. Djibouti became a country in 1977. Climate in Djibouti is desert, and it’s very dry.

The birth rate in Djibouti is 24.91/1000 and the death rate in Djibouti is 8.08/1000. Compared to Brazil Djibouti has greater birth rate. Djibouti is LEDC and the birth rate is high and death rate is low. Birth rate is low due to Djibouti having younger population than older population. Birth rate is high because of the education and country depends on agriculture, they have more babies. The education expenditures in Djibouti have 8.4% of GDP. School life expectancy in total is 5 years and male has 6 years and females 5 years. Due to the fact that Djibouti is a least developed country the degree of people getting disease is high. Food or waterborne diseases are bacterial and diarrhea. Hepatitis A and E, and the typhoid fever. Vector bone disease is malaria. The number of people living with HIV/AIDS is 14,000 people and the deaths due to HIV/AIDS are 1,000 people.

The net migration rate in Djibouti is 6.02 migrants/1000 populations. People leave other country to start a better life. The net migration rate is high. This leads an increasing unemployment and reduction in the labor force.

The infant mortality in Djibouti is 53.31 deaths/1000 lives births. Comparing to Guinea Djibouti slightly has lower infant mortality rate. Male is 60.88 deaths/1000 live. Female is 45.5 deaths/1000 live births. Djibouti is a least developed country which contains people with poor conditions that have hard time to afford food or have access to clean water and shelter. This leads to young babies have unhealthy conditions.

Education system in Djibouti is very costly due to the high cost of building school and the material that school affords. They also pay the teacher’s salary which cause student to pay more.

The population growth rate in Djibouti is 2.285%. The population growth rate is in a steady rate. The rate is positive which balances with death rate and birth rate. Also, balance of migrants entering and leaving the country. The doubling time in Djibouti is approimately 30 years. We divide 70 with the population growth rate. This means it will take time for Djibouti to have the double sized population that they currently have.

The life expectancy at birth in Djibouti of total population is 61.57 years. Djibouti has higher life expectancy at birth than Nigeria. Their total life expectancy is 52 years. Males are expected to live 59.15 years. Females are expected to live longer 64.07 years. Females tend to live longer because they do less tough work than the males.

Economy in Djibouti is still moving slowly and changed and their stage in the demographic transition model would be stage one.

By: So Young Yoo 10B

References: [|www.populstat.info/Africa/djibotg.htm] [|www.everyculture.com/Cr-Ga/Djibouti.html] [|www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/dj.html]